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Top-down games, also sometimes referred to as bird's-eye view, Overworld, Godview, overhead view or helicopter view, when used refers to a camera angle that shows the player and the area around them from above.

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Difference between Left Factoring and Left Recursion

What is the difference between Left Factoring and Left Recursion ? I understand that Left factoring is a predictive top down parsing technique. But I get confused when I hear these two terms.
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Designing APIs in Java with top-down approach - Is writing up the Javadoc the best starting point?

Whenever I have the need to design an API in Java, I normally start off by opening up my IDE, and creating the packages, classes and interfaces. The method implementations are all dummy, but the javadocs are detailed. Is this the best way to go…
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Grammar: difference between a top down and bottom up? (Example)

This is a follow up question from Grammar: difference between a top down and bottom up? I understand from that question that: the grammar itself isn't top-down or bottom-up, the parser is there are grammars that can be parsed by one but not the…
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Grammar: difference between a top down and bottom up?

What is the difference between a top down and bottom up grammar? An example would be awesome.
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How to get camera following a top down car in pygame

new to pygame and game programming in general, just wondered how I could get a camera to follow a car (nothing fancy) in a top down car game - think Micro Machines! I'm using Python 3.6, and have got a bike rotating, and moving around. I've kept the…
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Libgdx player trails

I am making a top down 2D skiing game, and I want to add a trail for the player that follows him around. I've considered trying to use particles, however I realize that this would be hard to make and it might make gaps. Are there any other methods…
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Make an object follow A* path smoothly

I am making a Topdown 2d game in SDL2 with C++. It has a tiled map of each tile being 32x32 px in dimensions. I have used the A* search algorithm so the enemy can find the player in the map. Currently the path is being correctly traced and after…
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In Scratch, how do you set boundaries on your top down scrolling?

I recently have been working on a scrolling game in scratch, and have been using a simple scrolling method, where the player is always centered and does not move, and the map is incredibly sized up, and moves instead. The problem is that even though…
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Adjusting vector magnitudes in a game using an angled orthographic camera in Unity

I am trying to create a top down game in Unity using an orthographic camera that is rotated at an angle (a) in the x direction. Because of the tilted camera in an orthographic scenario, horizontal movement ist perceived faster than vertical…
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How to programmatically switch tile palettes in Unity2D

Scenario: User has different tile palettes for each season (Summer, Fall, etc.) and switching between the two using popular Unity techniques would be tedious if the number of tiles in the tileset is greater than 5 or 10. How would said user switch…
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PrecompiledAssemblyException: Multiple precompiled assemblies with the same name UnityEditor

When I imported an asset to unity then I try to run the game this message appeared : allowed per platform. Assembly paths: C:/Users/ELEMENT14/MyGameIdea/Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ads@2.0.8/Editor/UnityEditor.Advertisements.dll, Assets/2D Top…
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Unity - AddForce() while using MovePosition() for movement

I was working on my top down game, but I got stuck. I am trying to make player be knockbacked when an enemy hits him(their rigidbodies collide). Now the problem is I am using MovePosition for player movement and when I then use anything that will…
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Tabulation vs Memoization for Backtracking solutions in Dynamic Programming (ex LCS)

Let’s say we approach the Longest Common Subsequence problem between two strings with Dynamic Programming using either Memoization (Top Down approach) or Tabulation (Bottom Up). My question is, which of these two methods can be altered in order to…
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opengl topdown<->bottomup textures?

When i load an image via FreeImage, the bits are bottom to top. My GL code expects all images to be topdown. Whats the best way to flip the image when i copy the bits to the texture?
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Grammar and top down parsing

For a while I've been trying to learn how LL parsers work and, if I understand this correctly, when writing a top-down recursive descent parser by hand I should create a function for every non-terminal symbol. So for this example: S -> AB A ->…
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